The main character that is made T-80 tank different from the other models, that are generally similar due the combat opportunities, means T-64 and T-72 types, is gas turbine engine (GTE). The existing of that type of engine can explain the rapt interest showed by experts and journalists and that it enjoys the wide popularity from average men (The good meaning of that word). The T-80 model surpassed its contemporaries in popularity. And it can be understood in a case with the top secret T-64 model. But then it's difficult to explain in a case with the "working horse" of the Soviet tank troops, that carried war on nearly all of the continents, the T-72 model
Apparently, the main cause is in the type of the power-plant. There are a lot of tanks in a world with the different types of the diesel engines. But only two of them are with the gas turbines, they are our T-80 model and American "Abrams". If so, we'll start from the creation of the power-plant for T-80 model. Especially, if the work on tank design started in the seventies, and the works on engine creation started much earlier

Contents
The story of creation
The production and modernization
T-80, T-80BV
The description of T-80B tank design
The general arrangement
The control section
The combat section
The power section
The body and turret
Armament
The parts of armament
The tank cannon
The antiaircraft and cannon emplacement
The disposal of units of fire in a tank
The mechanism of loading
The system of fire control 1A33
The production and modernization
T-80, T-80UD
The exploitation and military application
From T-80U model up to the "Black Eagle"
56 pages, 86 photos, 11 schemes

Illustrations
1. T-80UD tank of the second Guardian Tamansk motorized-rifle division during the military shooting. The firing ground in Golovenky, September 6, 2001
2. T-80U at the exhibition "BTTV-Omsk-99". June, 1999
3. The armored retriever BREM-80U that was designed on the base of T-80U tank
4. The up-to-date Ukrainian main tank "KERN-2.120", that sometimes called T-84-120
5. The "Black Eagle" tank during the rolling characteristics performance at the experimantal station. Omsk, June 9, 1999